1948, Tokiolives and works in Berlin and Tokyo

Biography

1948

Born in Tokyo/Japan

1970

Graduated from Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo

1974

Graduated from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles where he was intensively influenced by the American art movements of minimalism and concept art

1974

Moved to New York

2001

Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography

2006/2007

Deutscher Fotobuchpreis

2009

Praemium Imperiale  - World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu

2010

Medals of Honor (Japan)

2013

Officier of the Orde des Arts et des Lettres

2014

Isamu Noguchi Award

2017

Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society, London

Person of Cultural Merit, Tokyo

2018

National Arts Club Medal of Honor in Photography, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2018

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Still Life. Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

2016

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Black Box. Casa Garriga i Nogués Exhibition Hall, Barcelona/Recoletos Exhibition Hall, Madrid/FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam

2015

Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models. The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA

2014

Glass Tea House - Mondrian. Le Stanze del Vetro, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Aujourd'hui, le monde est mort [Lost Human Genetic Archive]. Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Past Tense. The J. Paul Getty Museum at The Getty Center, Los Angeles

2013

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

2012

Revolution. Museum Brandhorst, Munich

Couleurs de l'Ombre. Museum of Cultures, Basel/La Verrière, Brussels/Hermès: Le Forum, Tokyo/Garden Building, Miami/Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapur

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art, Villeneuve-d’Ascq

2011

New Work. The Chinati Foundation, Marfa

Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawing. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

2008

History of History, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa/National Museum of Art, Osaka

2007

Stylized Sculpture. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf/Museum der Moderne Salzburg/Neue Nationalgalerie,Berlin/Kunstmuseum Luzern

Various Archetypes. National Museum of Art, Osaka

2006

Mathematical Forms. Galerie de l’Atelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2005

History of History. Japan Society Gallery, New York/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2006)/Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto /Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco (2007)

End of Time. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo/The Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. /The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (2006)/Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco (2007)

2003

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Serpentine Gallery, London

Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2001

Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Architecture of Time. Kunsthaus Bregenz/ Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2002)/The Stills Gallery/The Fruitmarket Gallery and Stills Gallery Edinburgh (2002)

2000

The Architecture Series. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Portraits. Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin/Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao/Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York

1998

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Kunsthalle Bielefeld

1996

Hiroshi Sugimoto—Photographies. Moderna Museet, Stockholm

1995

Sugimoto. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1996)/Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Gunma(1996)/Akron Art Museum, Akron (1998)

Time Exposed. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel/Stedelijk Museum,‘s-Hertogenbosch

1994

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Parrish Art Museum, Southampton/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago